Part VIII. Grammar

Exercise 23: Put the nouns in brackets in plural.

There are two …………… (banana)	Are there any …………… on the table? (knife)	I have to wash a lot of …………… after dinner. (dish)	There are three …………… on the shelf. (strawbeery)
I gave my sister two …………… for her birthday. (kiss)	I have three …………… in my house. (puppy)	There are four …………… in the box. (potato)	I bought two …………… yesterday. (watch)
We put our old toys in three …………… to give way. (box)	It’s not common to have two …………… at a time. (bride)	There are at least two …………… across our village a day. (bus)	I make two …………… in my birthday. (wish)
Two …………… will be built in our town soon. (library)	There are four …………… in the zoo. (wolf)	According to the report, there are 195 …………… in the world. (country)	Two …………… were arrested yesterday. (thief)

Exercise 24: Put the verb to be into the correct form, positive or negative:

1. Tom ............... a chemist and his brother ............... a laboratory assistant.

2. Water ............... a colourless, odourless, transparent liquid with a boiling point of 100°C.

3. By 1906 a famous Russian scientist M.Tswett had developed a new method of establishing impurities which ............... called chromatography.

4. Joe ............... a member of the school band some time ago.

5. You ............... very educated in 5 years.

6. Perfumes ............... added to most cosmetics as they give them a pleasant odour.

7. The laboratory ............... old, so we ............... a new one in a year.

8. In the vitamin field the efforts of the chemists ............... especially large since the isolated and synthesized a number of new vitamines.

9. Is this your notebook? –No, it isn't. It ............... Maja's notebook.

10. ............... your experiment successful? – No, unfortunately it ............... . I hope my the next one ............... more successful.

Exercise 25: Put the verb into the correct form, Past Continuous or Past Simple:

1. Jenny ......................................... (wait) for me when I ......................................... (arrive).

2. What ......................................... (you / do) at this time yesterday?’ ‘I was asleep.’

3. ‘......................................... (you / go) out last night?’ ‘No, I was too tired.’

4. How fast ......................................... (you / drive) when the accident ......................................... (happen)?

5. Sam ......................................... (take) a photograph of me while I ......................................... (not / look).

6. We were in a very difficult position. We ......................................... (not / know) what to do.

7. I haven’t seen Alan for ages. When I last ......................................... (see) him, he ......................................... (try) to find a job.

8. I ......................................... (walk) along the street when suddenly I ......................................... (hear) footsteps behind me. Somebody ......................................... (follow) me. I was scared and I ......................................... (start) to run.

9. When I was young, I ......................................... (want) to be a pilot.

10. Last night I ......................................... (drop) a plate when I ......................................... (do)the washing up. Fortunately it ......................................... (not / break).

Exercise 26: Complete the sentences using the verbs in Present, Past or Future Perfect Tense:

will have synthesized	has helped
has developed	have made
has completed	have been
had elaborated	has formulated
shall have achieved	had collected

1. We............... many important observations since that time.

2. For fifty years the institute ............... and brought into use some 200 medicinal preparations.

3. They ............... a new carbon compound by the New Year.

4. He ............... just ............... his experiments on medicinal properties of some plants.

5. Zelinsky and his colleagues ............... new methods for synthesizing a large number of new compounds by the end of the last century.

6. I ............... never ............... to London.

7. By the end of our studies at the Academy we ............... good knowledge the technology of making medicines, pharmaceutical chemistry and organization and economy of pharmacy.

8. Chemical analysis ............... chemists to discover very many of the elements existing on the Earth.

9. Philosophy ............... long ago ............... the dialectical principle of the transition of quantity into quality.

10. The first year pharmacy students ............... some lily of the valley by July last year.

Exercise 27: Fill in the blanks with these words: at, from, in, around, near, of, to, up, with.

1. His trousers were washed ............... the washing machine.

2. We had to climb slowly ............... the hill.

3. My house is quite ............... to your school.

4. Which of these roads will lead ............... the church?

5. I think there is a salesman ............... the door.

6. Her next birthday will be ............... a Sunday.

7. Even the new drug could not cure him ............... his illness.

8. The cat likes to rub its head ............... my legs.

9. His sister holds a degree ............... physics ............... Oxford.

10. Many of us eat ............... fork and spoon.

Exercise 28: Make a request using the pictures below.

Exercise 29: Put the Adverbs in brackets into the right form:

1. My elder brother gets up ............... (early) than me.

2. The student ran ............... (fast) than he had ever run before.

3. “You should work ............... (hard) than you did last year,” Professor Brown said.

4. He swam ............... (bad) than usually yesterday.

5. Could you say it ............... (slowly), please?

6. I liked her dance ............... (well) of all.

7. Which of you can run ............... (well)?

8. The doctor told her to eat ............... (little) sweet and chocolate.

9. Which of you can cycle ............... (well)?

10. Yesterday she danced ............... (bad) than usually. She had a terrible backache.

11. I hope they’ll come ............... (early) tomorrow morning than today.

12. He works ............... (hard) at English than his friend.

13. He swims ............... (fast) than the American sportsman.

14. You should play ............... (carefully) than yesterday.

15. Steve and Sam did ............... (badly) in the last game.

Exercise 30: Make up Complex Subject sentences:

1. To be delivered, on Saturday, the letter, is expected.

2. Was found, behaviour, Nora’s to be suspicions, son.

3. Company, to be pleasant, was considered, Constance.

4. Today, to be announced, the news is expected.

5. Your team, to win, the game, was expected.

6. To have mode, our head engineer, an important discovery, was known.

7. This, of, to, unlikely, is great, be, importance, fact.

8. Have, to, said, to, are, come, to conference, the delegates.

9. Writing, be, is, a new, to, likely, book, he.

10. To, the question, able, be, at, thought, are, to, they, once, solve.

11. Life, Earth, thought, is, to, from, to, have, been, brought, space.

12. Peter, said, a student, talented, is, to, be.

13. He, about, know, little, seems, to, it.

14. They, expected, arrive, tomorrow, are, to.

15. Не, be, is, good, doctor, said, to, a.

Exercise 31: Complete the questions with the necessary pronoun: